Civil Rights Movement By: Dillon MacRitchie

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. The Plessy v. Ferguson court case.
2. Linda Brown was denied permission to go to her local public school.
3. The court ruled in favor of integration which permitted African Americans to go to public schools.

Murder of George Lee

May 7, 1955

1. Murder of George Lee
2. Belzoni, Mississippi
3. Lee first caused a problem with his community when he went o the federal court because the local sheriff wouldn't take his poll tax money. He also was trying to register other African Americans so there could one day be a black congressmen. He was shot in the face by Klansmen and left in his car.

Murder of Emmett Till

Aug 28, 1955

1. Murder of Emmett Till
2. Money, Mississippi
3. Emmett was visiting family in Money but he was from the north so he didn't know all about the racism in the south. Emmett went to a general store bought something and on his way out whistled at a white woman. Four days later he was murdered, torched, beaten and dumped in the Tallahatchie River.

Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give up her Bus Seat

Dec 1, 1955

1. The driver told Rosa to get out of her seat and move to the back where there was no room because whites were getting on the bus and there were no seats left in the white section.
2. This action resulted in the bus boycott were African Americans didn't ride segregated buses.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

1. The president that passed the law was Dwight Eisenhower.
2. The law stated that African Americans have a right to vote and broke the court into divisions to monitor civil rights abuse.

Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 24, 1957

1. Nine African American students wanted to enroll at Little Rock High school. However they were met by mobs of white rioters who screamed rasict slurs and threats.
2. The protesting went on and on but then the government sent in the army to protect the African Americans. The students were finally able to go to class but had an army officer with them during there year at the school.

The Murder of Mack Charles Parker

Apr 25, 1959

1. Mack Parker taken from jail and lynched
2. Poplarville, Mississippi
3. Parker was accused of kidnapping and rape of a white woman. He was sent to jail in Mississippi where former sheriff J.P Walker and a mob were granted permission by Jewel Alford the jailer to take Parker from the jail and shoot him as well as hanging him.

Attack on the Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. Freedom Riders rode integrated buses through the south to protest integrated buses.
2. The organization that helped organize the Freedom Rides was the CORE Congress of Racial Equality.
3. However the riders were mostly black there were some whites Asians and Catholics.

James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. James Meredith was trying to enroll at Ole Miss but was met by angry white mobs.
2. The government got involved when Kennedy order about 31,000 officers to restore order.
   

Murder of William Moore

Apr 23, 1963

1. Murder of William Lewis Moore
2. Attalla, Alabama
3. Moore a white man preformed many one man protest but on his last protest he was marching from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. He was doing this march to hand deliver a letter to the governor to change the racial values of Mississippi. However his letter never reached the governor. While walking Moore was shot and killed left on the roadside.

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who tried to segregate the University of Mississippi Law School.
2. Medgar tried to enroll which he did but was shot to death in his drive way by Byron De La Beckwith.

The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. The march was to shed light on jobs and freedom of African Americans.
2. This is when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" speech

Crushing of Bruce Klunder

Apr 7, 1964

1. Bruce Klunder Killed for Protesting
2. Cleveland, Ohio
3. Klunder was awakened by the bus boycott and began talking with YMCA workers about how to help. Klunder and others went to Cleveland to protest segregated schools. A bulldozer was getting ready for construction of a segragated school but the volunteers threw themselves on the ground so the machine couldn't move. However Klunder layed behind the machine and the operator put it in reverse killing Klunder.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. Lyndon B. Johnson passed the law.
2. The law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination just because you weren't the same race, religion or if you were a man or woman.

March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. The marched was organized to highlight the hatred in the south during the 1960's.
2. As the marchers crossed the Alabama River they were met by state troopers who told them to turn back but the protesters refused. The state troops began beating the marchers.
3. It should the country on national television the racism in the south.

Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice

Oct 2, 1967

1. He was legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP.)
2. I think it was a monumental event because it showed that we can work together and it shows that if you work hard you can accomplish your goals.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

1. He gave a speech at the Masonic Temple in Memphis which foreshadowed his own death by saying “I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you." The next day he was shot and killed on a balcony by James Earl Ray.
2. He gave whites and blacks hope that one day there will be no racism. He also helped white's and especially black's needs.